Parish church Wels-Lichtenegg

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Tent church Lichtenegg

The Roman Catholic parish church of Wels-Lichtenegg is located in the Lichtenegg district in the municipality of Wels in Upper Austria . The church, consecrated to St. Stephen , belongs to the deanery Wels-Stadt in the diocese of Linz .

history

In 1938, a barrack camp was built as an emergency barracks on the south-western outskirts of the city, in Lichtenegg, not far from Bundesstraße 1 . After the war, a refugee camp was set up in barrack camp 1001, especially for those released from concentration camps. In 1952, with the arrival of the refugee and priest from Hungary Stephan Macsady in October, a camp church was built within 4 weeks. After Lichtenegg was elevated to a parish (1961), a tent-shaped church with a free-standing bell tower was built between 1962 and 1966 with the architect Karl Odorizzi and consecrated in 1966. After that the emergency church was used as a kindergarten and demolished in the 1970s. In 1974 the five bells were consecrated.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From "Barracks 1001" to the tent church: Parish Lichtenegg celebrates its 50th birthday Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, January 27, 2011
  2. ↑ Father Stefan Macsady (sic) dioezese-linz.at, o. J., accessed August 18, 2018.

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 10.6 ″  N , 14 ° 0 ′ 0.4 ″  E